Name: Kim Patrick B.

Arroyo Date: August, 20, 2019

Yr./Sec.: BSOA-2C Prof.: Janelle Gamboa

“THE SCREAM”
By Edward Munch

1. What do you think is the painting all about?

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2. Why do you think did artist created this painting?

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3. Did this painting affect your thought and feelings? In what says?

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4. Was the artist successful in conveying his message to you? Why?

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5. Did you consider this work good? Why? Why not?

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6. Should you even care about this painting? Explain your answer.
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Meaning of The Scream (1893) Painting by
Edvard Munch: Art Analysis
BY K SHABI PUBLISHED 12 JUNE 2013
Art History Behind Edvard Munch's
Expressionist Painting The Scream (1893)
The Norwegian artist Edvard Munch's
painting The Scream (1893) was painted at
the end of the nineteenth century during a
unique transitional period in art history,
sometimes referred to as the fin de siecle.
While artists were once interested in painting
their subjects objectively since their success
was often measured by their technical skill,
by the end of the nineteenth century brave
artists like Edvard Munch were starting to use
art to express inner thoughts, feelings and
emotions instead, often by painting with
bright, exaggerated colors and simple shapes.
Though reviled by art critics and considered
too radical in their time, artists like Munch
and even Vincent Van Gogh paved the way
for Expressionism and the even more
progressive modern art movements of the
twentieth century.
The Scream by Edvard Munch: Modern Art
Analysis
So what is the meaning and story behind The
Scream? In what he referred to as his "soul
painting," Edvard Munch reveals an honest
and perhaps even ugly glimpse of his inner
troubles and feelings of anxiety, putting more
importance on personal meaning than on
technical skill or "beauty," a traditional goal
of art. According to Munch's diaries, the idea
and inspiration for The Scream was very
autobiographical, with the modern art
painting's content closely based on a personal
experience first recorded in an 1892 diary
entry which Munch later adapted into The
Scream painting and finally, in 1895, a poem.
"I was walking down the road with two friends
when the sun set; suddenly, the sky turned as red
as blood. I stopped and leaned against the fence,
feeling unspeakably tired. Tongues of fire and
blood stretched over the bluish black fjord. My
friends went on walking, while I lagged behind,
shivering with fear. Then I heard the enormous
infinite scream of nature."EDVARD MUNCH
Interpretation of Munch's famous The
Scream Painting Quote
What does the famous Edvard Munch quote
associated with The Scream painting mean? In
the quote, Munch describes what initially
sounds like a relaxing evening out in Norway,
taking a walk at dusk with some friends
beside the fjord. While watching a vivid
sunset might sound relaxing and enjoyable,
for Munch it was a moment of existential
crisis. In what sounds like a panic attack,
Munch describes feelings of exhaustion while
overwhelmed by an almost violent wave of
anxiety. Like most panic attacks, Munch's
experience by the fjord was a lonely internal
struggle, as his two friends walk on without
him, completely unaware of the artist's upset.
Like Van Gogh's Starry Night, the
landscape of The Scream painting almost
vibrates with a swirling and overwhelming
feeling and emotion. In the manner of a true
Expressionist painter, Munch uses bright
colorful imagery to express his chaotic
emotional state in that moment, both in his
poem and in his painting. Munch draws
attention to the momentary intensity of the
landscape with brightly saturated, contrasting
colors as the “red― sky ignites above the
"bluish black" water. While Munch mentions
feeling "unspeakably tired" in his poem, his
painting also suggests his lightheadedness and
helplessness in the situation, with the person
in the foreground seemingly being pulled into
the painting's eerily sentient background.
The Scream Meaning: Where is the scream
coming from?
At the end of his poem, Munch mentions asylum where his sister was? The true
hearing "the enormous infinite scream of meaning behind The Scream may very well
nature." In fact, the original German title come back to the decidedly ugly, even
given by Munch to his work was Der Schrei hideous, sounds of living beings undergoing
der Natur ("The Scream of Nature"). Where both physical and emotional suffering in the
does the "infinite scream of nature" come modern age.
from? According to his poem, Munch was
psychologically anguished during his
Screaming Man or Woman?
experience by the fjord. In the painting, the
Who is the person in The Scream? In his
subject's mouth and whole face are pulled into
poem, Munch describes almost an all-
the recognizable shape of a scream, but
consuming black hole hell where "tongues of
Munch tells us that he heard the scream —
fire" savagely lick at the frazzled and
importantly, he does not say that he himself
overwhelmed person, unidentifiable as either
actually screamed (at least not out loud). Is
man or woman. On first glance, Munch's
this primal scream really coming from the
quote makes it seem that the painting is a self-
person in the painting or somewhere else?
portrait of the artist himself. While his
The repeated use of the word "blood" in
experience by the fjord may have inspired The
Munch's poem, in combination with the
Scream, the hairless fetal person in The
twirling, swirling, and whirling warm tones
Scream painting is unrecognizable as either a
used in the background suggest an external,
male or female and has a gaunt, skull-like
physical threat. What is the source of violence
face. Due to the ambiguity of the subject's
in this seemingly isolated landscape in
gender, the sexless person depicted in the
Norway? As it turns out, art history sources
painting may be Munch, or it actually may be
indicate that a slaughterhouse was within
Munch's sick sister, hospitalized in the
earshot of the spot illustrated in The
asylum nearby. In fact, it could be anyone...
Scream painting. The proximity of the
slaughterhouse could very well account for
Munch's repeated mentions of "blood" in The Scream Meaning (1893) by Edvard
connection with the painting. The haunting Munch
screams of dying animals could possibly What is the meaning of Edvard Munch's 1893
account for the "infinite scream of nature" modern art painting The Scream? When it all
that Munch heard. comes down to it, a "scream" is above all a
sound and an auditory sensation. The
screaming of both the dying animals and the
Edvard Munch: Anxiety of the Artist
cries overheard coming from the nearby
Was the slaughterhouse the only source of
insane asylum, however faint they may have
screaming anguish in The Scream? Like
been, give an added and potent personal
Vincent Van Gogh, throughout his life Edvard
meaning to the painting's simple title. Did
Munch struggled with anxiety and insanity —
Munch hear a scream that was in fact a
both on a personal level and indirectly,
mixture of While the painting may have
through his family. In fact, his mentally ill
autobiographical and personal significance for
sister was hospitalized at the time The
Munch, one reason why The Scream painting
Scream was painted in 1893. Along with a
is still so famous even today is because it is
slaughterhouse, the very mental asylum where
so universal in its meaning. Anyone can look
Munch's own sister was hospitalized was
at The Scream and feel something.
located very nearby, too. Was the scream
Munch heard actually coming from the insane